[mpowr] RE: [Solutions] Further work on WG (chair) roles - MPOWR WG proposal

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Hi Pete,

> Right now any AD can, of his or her own choosing and without any 
> change in 2026 or 2418, decide to make their WG chairs responsible 
> for the technical writeup of documents, resolving last call issues, 
> and shepherding of the document through the IESG including resolving 
> discuss issues. An AD can choose to do this now without asking the 
> IETF for any consensus whatsoever.
> 
> Personally, I think this would be a good thing for an AD to do 
> anyway. It certainly has every appearance of addressing the workload 
> problem and some more of the transparency problem.
> 
> This is not worthy of a WG. It is worthy of implementation.

I mostly agree with you.

These types of changes do fall completely within the scope of
our current BCPs.  However, they can't be implemented on an 
IETF-wide basis "right now", because they are not supported by 
our current IESG-secretariat procedures, nor are they well-supported 
by our tools.  

We will need some procedural and tools changes to support this
shift, and those are the types of changes that I expect the 
PROTO Team to propose to the IESG.  We can (and will) make these
changes as quickly as we can, while also being prudent and careful.

> Having discussions on whether or not it would be a good idea to 
> increase the powers and authority of a WG or WG chair might be 
> interesting. Having ongoing discussions to decide whether or not 
> increasing the responsibilities of WG chairs is working out (once 
> started; see previous paragraph) is fine. But forming a WG when there 
> is no need for documentation of some of these straightforward 
> procedural changes is, IMO, silly. Forming a WG to produce a document 
> to discuss this is simply delaying, and delay is something we've seen 
> more than enough of.

The discussion of this WG, and its possible formation, is 
not expected to delay the work of the PROTO Team.

Some people believe that we need changes to RFCs 2418 and/or
2026 to modernize, clarify or modify the roles of WG chairs,
ADs, etc.  If there is community consensus that these types
of changes are needed, that is what the WG will work on.

IMO, this is a lower priority effort than making the changes 
to our IESG-Secretariat procedures and tools that will allow
us to give WGs (through WG chairs) more visibility and control
over their documents in the later document phases. 

Margaret


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